Quotes About Influence

Then one day someone hooks your attention and using the word, lets you know that you are not stupid. You believe what the person says and make a new agreement. As a result, you no longer feel or act stupid. A whole spell is broken, just by the power of the word.

Eres tú el que controla el conocimiento o es el conocimiento el que te controla a ti?»

But like a sword with two edges, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you.

They had no control over the programming they received, so they couldn't have behaved any differently.

The way you see the world will depend upon the emotions you are feeling. When you are angry, everything around you is wrong, nothing is right. You blame everything including the weather; whether it's raining or the sun is shining, nothing pleases you.

Imagine that every single time others gossip to you, they insert a computer virus into your mind, causing you to think a little less clearly every time.

I owe everything to Hitler, since without him nothing would have been known, nothing would have been allowed to us.

Mona: There's this girl who's following me around. I've been trying to lose her. Elaine: Black hair and amazing eye shadow, right? You can't lose her, Mona. But you're okay if we stick together. Anyone who's with me she sort of ignores.

Control what people believe, and you control what they do. Who they are. The world is only the aggregate of human perception. Stories are scalpels that allow us to operate on those perceptions.

I don't think the drug dealer in ghetto culture is really admired just because of the shit he owns. He isn't respected for his money, either. Think about it—there are plenty of people with money who aren't respected in ghettos all over the world. No, he's respected because he's capable. For those who feel broken and helpless, there does not exist a more inspiring thing.

Leadership is an action, not a position.

Every artist who drew Batman after creator Bob Kane was a better artist than Kane [...].

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

No a czary, jak wiadomo, skoro raz si? zaczn?, to nic ju? ich nie powstrzyma.

But The Master and Margarita is true to the broader sense of the novel as a freely developing form embodied in the works of Dostoevsky and Gogol, of Swift and Sterne, of Cervantes, Rabelais and Apuleius.

Your interlocutor was at Pilate's, and had breakfast with Kant, and now he's visiting Moscow

Of two friends one is always the slave of the other, though often neither will admit it.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Jika ingin menghancurkan sebuah bangsa dan peradaban, hancurkan buku-bukunya; maka pastilah bangsa itu akan musnah.

characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.

All of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.

But all he could think of was what Sabina would have said about it. Everything he did, he did for Sabina, the way Sabina would have liked to see it done. It was a perfectly innocent form of infidelity and one eminently suited to Franz, who would never have done his bespectacled student-mistress any harm. He nourished the cult of Sabina more as a religion than as love

Look around you. Of all the people you see, no one is here by his own wish. Of course, what I just said is the most banal truth there is. So banal, and so basic, that we've stopped seeing it and hearing it.